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Mental health professionals can hurt you as well as help. I think if you're not actually going crazy, I'd advise against this. Talk to any kindly outsider. I
by Eliezer 17y ago
Mental health professionals can hurt you as well as help.
I think if you're not actually going crazy, I'd advise against this. Talk to any kindly outsider. If you do actual controlled studies - scientific evidence, can you dig it? - they show that if you're not organically crazy, talking to professors works just as well as talking to mental health professionals. And professors won't take all your money or get you committed or subject you to the psychoanalytic flavor-of-the-week etcetera.
Yes, there are good mental health professionals, but just going out at random is really risky.